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Create a Floral All-Occasions Card with VersaColor

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By Jessica Lin

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 minutes

Hi everyone! It’s Jessica here. I am so happy to be on Imagine Crafts’ design team again for 2026. If you have seen some of my creations before, you would notice that I love bold, bright colors. Today, I am sharing a floral card that features this vibrant orange from the VersaColor ink line.

Step 1:
I started out by preparing an A2 card base with Calypso Coral cardstock. Then I trimmed a piece of Dry Brushed Metallic paper to 3’’ x 4.5’’ as a background accent.

Step 2:
The stamp set I am using today is Flourishing Phrases from Stampin’ Up. I stamped the flower image with VersaColor Orange ink pad on a piece of 3.5’’ x 4’’ cardstock. For the leaves, I used VersaColor Bamboo ink pad.

Step 3:
I stamped another flower image on a scrap piece of cardstock and fussy cut it along the edge.

Step 4:
Then I die cut a circle with cross-stitch details and stamped the sentiment with VersaColor Bamboo ink.

Step 5:
The coordinating die set includes various floral designs that work well both by themselves and with the stamp images. I decided to die cut the largest design and cut it into 3 pieces to decorate around the sentiment. Finally, I adhered all of the elements onto the cardbase, added some rhinestones, and the card is complete!

Imagine Supplies:

Other Supplies:

  • Stampin’ Up! – Stamps – Flourishing Phrases
  • Stampin’ Up! – Dies – Flourish Thinlits
  • Stampin’ Up! – Patterned Paper – Dry Brushed Metallic
  • Stampin’ Up! – Cardstock – Calypso Coral

Let’s Make a Sympathy Card 

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By Anna Escalada York

Sadly, I needed to make a sympathy card.

Skill: Intermediate 
Time: 1 hour (plus drying time) 

Directions: 

Step 1: 
Trim a piece of watercolor paper a little bit larger than an A2 sized cardbase (4.5” x 5.75”) and watercolor smoosh the panel with Gray Flannel Memento Ink mixed with water on acetate packaging. Allow the panel to dry. Then repeat the process with Pearlescent Lavender Brilliance Ink and then finally with Champagne Delicata Ink. 

Step 2: 
Stamp stars on watercolor paper with Paradise VersaFine Clair ink. Repeat the process so make the blue of the ink darker. Then heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Then die cut with the corresponding die. 

Step 3: 
Press Blue Belle VersaFine Clair Ink onto another piece of watercolor paper and then use this paper to die cut the sentiment. Die cut two pieces of scrap paper with the same sentiment die and glue the three layers together for dimension. 

Use the corresponding shadow die to die cut a vellum shadow layer and glue behind the sentiment. 

Step 4: 
Spray the background panel with Paris Dusk Fireworks! Craft Spray through a stencil. While the spray is still wet, remove the stencil and spray the panel with Summer Sky Fireworks! Craft Spray to move both colors of spray. Splatter some of the light blue areas of the panel with Paris Dusk Fireworks! Craft Spray. Allow panel to dry. 

Step 5: 
Trim the background panel to about 4” by 5.25” and then distress the edges with a pair of scissors. Press the edges of the panel into the Gray Flannel Memento Ink pad and then heat emboss with more clear embossing powder. 
Next, glue the sentiment onto the center-right and the Star was attached with foam tape. 

Step 6: 
Stamp a sub-sentiment on a small piece of watercolor paper with more of the Blue Belle VersaFine Clair ink and then heat embossed it with more of the clear embossing powder. Then distress the edges with scissors and then press the edges into the Blue Belle VersaFine Clair Ink. 

Step 7: 
Attach the sub sentiment onto the panel with more of the foam tape. Then glue the whole panel onto an A2-sized white cardbase to finish the card. 

Art Supplies 

Imagine 
• Brilliance Ink – Pearlescent Lavender 
• Delicata Ink – Champagne 
• Fireworks! Craft Spray – Paris Dusk 
• Fireworks! Craft Spray – Summer Sky 
• Memento ink – Gray Flannel 
• VersaFine Clair ink – Blue Belle 
• VersaFine Clair ink – Paradise 

Other 
• Altenew – foam tape -Instant Dimension Foam Tape 
• Honey Bee Stamps – die set – Happy Hanukkah 
• Honey Bee Stamps – stamp set – Happy Hanukkah 
• Honey Bee Stamps – die set – With Sympathy 
• Honey Bee Stamps – stamp set – With Sympathy 
• The Crafter’s Workshop (TCW) – stencil – Kaleidoscope (TCW347S) 
• Clear Embossing Powder 
• Heat tool 
• Scissors 
• Glue 
• Watercolor paper 
• Vellum 

Mixed Media Birthday Card

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello Friends,
It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a fun background technique with you that even a child can create. This is a Mixed Media project. Does the word mixed media have you thinking I can’t make a mixed meda card? It used to for me but honestly mixed media is simply a card made with two different mediums, so this one is shaving cream and ink. Don’t let the word mixed media scare you.

Skill: Beginner
Time: 45 Minutes

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need a sentiment die cut of your choosing, some foaming shaving cream (gel will not work, some re inkers in different colors, a paper plate, a toothpick and some water friendly paper.

Step 1:
Add shaving cream to the paper plate.

Step 2:
Add drops of re inkers to the shaving cream. I used 5 different colors.

Step 3:
Using a tooth pick, swirl the colors around.

Step 4:
Place water friendly paper (I used Bristol Vellum) face down into the shaving cream.  Wipe off with paper towel. The results will look like the next photo and as a added bonus, it will smell so good.

Step 5:
Cut the sentiment out of White cardstock and the backer out of a coordinating color of cardstock. Adhere them together and add to the front of the card.

Craft Supplies:

Imagine Products
Memento Re-Inkers:
– Bahama Blue
– Summer Sky
– Teal Zeal
– Lulu Lavender
– Lilac Posies
Tear-It!Tape

Other Products
Paper Plate
Toothpick
Shaving Cream
Happy Birthday Word die- Simon Says Stamp
Misti stamping tool

Make a Sweet Birthday Card with VersaMagic Pastel Ink Pads

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By Jessica Lin –

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 minutes

Hi everyone! It’s Jessica here. Today I am sharing a birthday card using one of my favorite ink pads – VersaMagic. They have great pastel colors that are just perfect for sorbet and ice cream images.

Step 1:
The first color I chose is VersaMagic Pixie Dust – it reminds me of the classic strawberry ice cream. I used it to stamp the ice cream scoop image from Stampin’ Up’s Sweet Ice Cream set.

Step 2:
Then I used VersaMagic Sea Breeze to stamp my second scoop of ice cream. You will notice that the ice cream image is not entirely solid. I really like the “watercolor” look it gives off.

Step 3:
For my last scoop of ice cream, I used VersaMagic Thatched Straw. A soft yellow like this is hard to find in the ink pad world. I have yet to find a similar hue as soft as this color.

Step 4:
Once the stamped images are left to dry for 5-10 minutes, I punched them out with the coordinating Ice Cream Cone Builder punch.

Step 5:
For the ice cream cones, I used VersaMagic Gingerbread and Sahara Sand. The darker one on top is stamped with Gingerbread, and the two lighter ones on the bottom are stamped with Sahara Sand.

Step 6:
I decided to heat emboss the sentiment on vellum to match the soft, pastel palette of the card. I stamped the “Happy Birthday” stamp with VersaMark Dazzle Champagne and heat embossed with white Mboss powder.

Step 7:
To complete the card, I adhered all of the elements onto a card panel that I embossed with Stampin’ Up Painted Texture embossing folder. I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial and have a sweet day!

Products Used:

Imagine Supplies:

Other Supplies:

  • Stampin’ Up! – Stamps – Sweet Ice Cream
  • Stampin’ Up! – Punch – Ice Cream Cone Builder
  • Stampin’ Up! – Embossing Folder – Painted Texture

Clean and Simple Watercolor Floral Card

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello everyone!

It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a card that showcases my style which is clean and simple. This is also a watercolor card which I love to watercolor, it’s so relaxing.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 45 Minutes

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need a floral image stamp or a line image that you can color, several colors of water based re-inkers to watercolor with, small paintbrush, water friendly paper and a pigment ink.

Step 1:
Stamp the image with a pigment ink

Step 2:
Using a green re-inker paint the leaves on the floral image.

Step 3:
Use a teal re-inker to paint the small flowers

Step:4
Mix the teal ink and the green ink together to create a darker green ink to paint the different leaves.

Step:5
Using a light and a bright pink re-inker paint the daisies.

Step: 6
Using a yellow and orange ink paint the centers of the flowers, first yellow and then orange near the bottom.

Step: 7
After the image is painted use the coordinating die to cut it out.

Step: 8
Stamp a sentiment and cut it out with the coordinating die. Place all the elements on the embossed panel (I added an embossed panel at the end) and add the sentiment.

Products Used:

Imagine Products
VersaFine Clair – Nocturne
Memento Re-inkers
– Angel Pink
– Rose Bud
– Tangelo
– Dandelion
– New Sprout
– Teal Zeal
On Point Glue

Other Products
Let Hop Bloom Stamp/die – Dare 2B Artzy
Grace is Enough stamp/die – Dare 2B Artzy
Embossing Folder – Altenew

Stamp a Gender-Neutral Birthday Card with VersaFine Clair Inks

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By Jessica Lin

Skill: Beginner
Time: 20 minutes

Hi everyone! It’s Jessica here. I am always looking for ways to create gender-neutral birthday cards, and I am so excited to share a beginner-friendly version today. This plant stamp set has some punny sentiments for Valentine’s Day, too. Some of the phrases are perfect for all-occasions, which makes this set so versatile to pair up with the potted plants images.

Step 1:
Stamp the succulent plant with VersaFine Clair Grass Green ink pad. For the pot, use VersaFine Clair Sand Dune. Stamp another succulent image on a post-it note and fussy cut the image for masking in step 2. Tip: Stamp on the sticky edge of the post-it note so that the fussy cut image will turn into a temporary sticker

Step 2:
Mask the stamped succulent image with the fussy cut sticky note. Then stamp the second plant pot with VersaFine Clair Verdant and Acorn. Masking the succulent plant creates the illusion that it sits in front of the second plant pot. I did not overlap the two plants very much, but you could stamp the two closer together to emphasize the spatial arrangement.

Step 3:
For the third cactus plant, stamp with VersaFine Clair Green Oasis and Pinecone. I love the different shades of greens and browns in the VersaFine Clair line; they complement each other so well.

Step 4:
Lastly, stamp the outline images with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink pad. The super cute pun sentiment was also stamped with the same ink.

Step 5:
Trim the stamped card panel to 3 ½’’ x 4 ¾’’. Adhere it to a 3 ¾’’ x 5’’ piece of green cardstock, then adhere both layers to a cardbase with foam tape.

Step 6:
For the final finishing touch, add a few enamel drops from Doodlebug Sprinkles Limeade.

Products Used:

Imagine Supplies:

Other Supplies:

  • iCrafter – Stamps – Positively Plants
  • Stampin’ Up! – Cardstock – Pear Pizzazz
  • Neenah – Cardstock – Desert Storm
  • Foam Tape
  • Doodlebug – Enamel Dots – Sprinkles Limeade